[B/X] Known World Modules for B/X (not BECMI)

[Vile Traveller]

Just to pre-empt any argument over which is better, I want to say that this is only a request for information! No edition wars here!

Which modules were published for the Known World as identified in the Cook.Marsh Expert Rulesbook and X1? Before the advent of BECMI and the Mystara Gazetteers. I'm compiling a list of references for a complete B/X game for my own amusement, nothing more or less, and your erudite input is greatly appreciated.

I know there are threads about this somewhere, but for the life of me I can't find one.

[Vile Traveller]

paleologos kindly posted his list on Dragonsfoot: www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1699457#p1699457

Quite a bit more there than I would have thought! Looks like a lot of modules came out during the b/X era, while BECMI moved on with boxed sets and gazetteers and the like.

[Vile Traveller]

If I may quote:

Haunted Keep - Basic Rulebook

B1 (revised for B/X)
B2 (revised for B/X)
I have mixed feelings about these two, since they are really Holmes-era modules, but were revised for B/X

B3 (original version) vs. B3 (revised version) the former is currently my preference (which I recently reviewed over in the reviews section)
B4 The Lost City
B5 Horror on the Hill (interior compatible with B/X, despite BECMI-style cover) - I like placing this off to the northwest of the Adri Varma plateau
B6 (published in BECMI era, but fully compatible with B/X, includes original map of Specularum, and written by Zeb Cook)

RPGA1 Rahasia
RPGA2 Black Opal Eye
These precursors to BECMI-era module B7 are somewhat different and written explicitly for B/X. I like placing them north of Akesoli.

M1 Blizzard Pass (the pass into Darokin from the Five Shires is visible on the western part of the Basic Rulebook map of the Grand Duchy)
M2 Maze of the Riddling Minotaur

Gnome Lair - Expert Rulebook

X1 (original version)
X2 Castle Amber
X3 Curse of Xanathon
X4 & X5 Desert Nomads

AC2 Treasure of the Hideous One (map of Grand Duchy compatible with B/X version, and written by Zeb Cook)

Finally:

The Beacon at Enon-Tor. A new D&D mini-module set in a wizard's laboratory. An exciting adventure for 4 players.
Imagine Magazine #1 published by TSR Hobbies (UK) Ltd April 1983

and last but not least, there's the short story "Black Lotus" written by Tom Moldvay in the Dragontales anthology

[tkdco2]

I still have X1 and X3. I never ran X3 for D&D, but I modified it for a Castle Falkenstein game.

[scottenkainen]

Jun 2, 2020 15:39:03 GMT -6 tkdco2 said:

I still have X1 and X3. I never ran X3 for D&D, but I modified it for a Castle Falkenstein game.

Ooo. This woke me up! We need an entire new thread about how to convert D&D modules to Castle Falkenstein.

[tkdco2]

Jun 2, 2020 17:15:34 GMT -6 scottenkainen said:

Jun 2, 2020 15:39:03 GMT -6 tkdco2 said:

I still have X1 and X3. I never ran X3 for D&D, but I modified it for a Castle Falkenstein game.

Ooo. This woke me up! We need an entire new thread about how to convert D&D modules to Castle Falkenstein.

I just played it fast and loose. I just decided what skills a creature or NPC had and at what level. Castle Falkenstein is a more narrative game than D&D, so you have a bit of leeway on how to design or handwave stuff. You also use playing cards instead of dice.

[scottenkainen]

Do you keep the fantasy setting and only borrow the CF game mechanics, or do you update the modules to the 19th century?

[tkdco2]

I updated the setting to the 19th century. I had already used all or most of the adventures in the rulebook, so I needed to adapt stuff from other games.